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Lacquer repair question

I bought a lacquer finished tray at a garage sale. It has a cloudy, white water ring stain on it. Do you know how to repair this?

fran bidell
- croton on hudson, New York
2000

If you think that the old finish and the tray are worthless, you can strip the lacquer with paint remover [on eBay or Amazon] , or loosen it in hot wood cleaner, like trisodium phosphate [on eBay or Amazon].

Take off the finish and you could be destroying any value of the piece.

Tom Pullizzi
Falls Township, Pennsylvania
2000

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